Ruthless Prioritization: Drew Falkman on How Agile Teams Really Move Faster
The Product Guy
AUGUST 8, 2025
Too many agile teams mistake movement for momentum. Backlogs get longer, everyone is busy, but the product is not moving forward.
519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh
Product Innovation Educators
DECEMBER 16, 2024
He emphasizes that these activities vary based on context (large vs. small organizations, B2B vs. B2C, Agile vs. Waterfall). The discussion reveals how product management has evolved since 1931 and highlights the importance of clear role definition to prevent job frustration.
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From Bias to Better Leadership: Harpal Singh on Self-Awareness and Team Growth
The Product Guy
JUNE 24, 2025
In this episode, Harpal Singh reflects on the tough leadership lessons he’s learned, from navigating hiring bias to managing across cultures and growth stages. Product managers are often praised for high standards, but what happens when those standards cause more harm than good?
513: What product leaders need to know about making new product development work – with Jack Hsieh
Product Innovation Educators
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
PDMA has been supporting product professionals since 1976, making it the oldest organization dedicated to product management. Process Management Organizations need different development processes based on their specific needs. Process Management
Team Leadership in the Age of Agile
Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant
Roy Osherove, the author of Elastic Leadership, is going to provide some answers that come from his experience seeing this across many different organizations. And the answers focus on leadership. Which leadership styles are most effective for each mode. When and how to encourage learning in your team.
How Maya Brooks Builds Value Through Product Philosophy and Feminist Leadership
The Product Guy
JUNE 13, 2025
What You’ll Learn: Designing for Goodwill : Why community-centered product strategy pays off Real-Time Feedback Loops : Using tight-knit Slack communities for continuous insight Holistic PM Thinking : Building long-term value across every founder stage Product with Purpose : Balancing mission and business priorities at scale Leadership Through (..)
Here’s What You Missed at TPG Live: Beyond IC & Introducing Product
The Product Guy
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Product leaders know that career growth isn’t always linear—stepping into leadership or establishing a product management function can be as complex as it is rewarding. Moving Beyond the Individual Contributor: Elevating Your Impact as a Product Leader Transitioning from an IC role to product leadership is a defining moment in your PM career.
More Effective Agile Leadership
Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software
We all strive to be effective Agile leaders. Join Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, as he distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. Adapt your implementation of Agile to your industry context. But how do you know if you're succeeding?
The Key to Agile Team Motivation
Speaker: Robert Webber, Author and Innovation Leader
Agile was a grassroots engineering movement that caught most software leaders unprepared. The Agile community was confident that management would recognize the benefits of Agile and adopt its servant-leadership style. Agile has been impeded by retention of Waterfall release planning practices and schedule pressure.
Business Agile: A Roadmap for Transforming Your Management & Adapting to the VUCA Environment
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager
Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive.
How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy
Speaker: Paul Heller
Paul Heller, Innovation Evangelist and podcast host of Innovation Talks , will provide insight on the following: Learn how to ensure that innovation projects are directly tied to broader business transformation goals Discover methods for improving cross-functional collaboration between innovation, product, and leadership teams for enhanced supply chain (..)
Data-Driven Performance Feedback Helps Teams Improve Customer Outcomes
Speaker: Mickey Mantle, Founder and CEO at Wanderful Interactive Storybooks | Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Author, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.
Teams and their leadership need to leverage data to achieve better customer outcomes. And in the era of agile, which recognizes that software development is a team sport, performance reviews need to use data for programmer growth and to give focus to business results.
Encouraging Innovation in an Established Product Culture
Speaker: Richard Cardran, Chief Creative Officer and VP Strategy, HIA Technologies
We'll examine the importance of UX and user-centric feature analysis, the adaptation of Agile Methodologies to the creative process, as well as a way to drive successful culture change for setting expectations and winning approvals with cross-functional stakeholders. Innovation and Leadership go hand in hand.
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